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Slate's 10th Anniversary :
June 1996 - June 2006.
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This article was originally published February 21, 2006.
Slate turns 10 this week, and we're publishing The Best of Slate: A Tenth Anniversary Anthology.In celebration of the book and the anniversary, we're publishing (or, rather, re-publishing) a selection of pieces from the anthology, including this article. You can see a list of all the republished pieces, as well as everything else we are publishing in honor of the anniversary, here.
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